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THE TIME OF THE END; 

OR, THE 

PllEDlCTED MOEE THAN TWO THOUS.^TJ YEARS AGO 

BY THE PEOPHET DANIEL. 



THE 

GOYERJVMENT OF THE UMTED STATES 

VINDICATED IN SUPPRESSING THE REBELLION. 



THE 
"GLORIOUS HOLY MOUNTAIN:" 

THE TITLE WHICH GOD GAVE TO THE G0\T:RNMENT THAT GUAR- 
ANTEES CONSTITUTION-\L EIGHTS AND CIVIL AND 
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. 



Daniel^ lie. 40--4§. &c. 



ELMIRA, N. T. 

PAIRMAN & C-\LDWELL, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 
1865. 



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INTRODUCTION. 



Proijliocy was for many years a trouljle to my mind. Its seem- 
ing obscurity cast aroimd it a fear and terror, and it appeared as 
temeritj' to tread upon such hallowed ground. But an anxiety to 
know' God's Word in its fullness made me take even the study ot 
the prophets and prophecy into view. And I have now to say 
that I could never have had so clear a sight of the plan of Re- 
demption and of the future glory of the church as this study of 
the proi^hecy has given me. And what I once did not believe, I 
now most cordially embrace. That is, that Christ comes prior to the 
millenium to give his saints their inheritance on this earth rather 
than after that period. And also, that without doubt that day is 
so near at hand that it is both the duty and blessed privilege of 
every christian to look constantly for his " appearing." Let no 
man be deceived. If the following pamphlet be a true construc- 
tion of Daniel's proj)hecy, then indeed are we upon the verge of 
time and of the resurrection of the righteous dead. Not because 
your humble servant has any foreknowledge, but because God has 
both the ability to foreknow and also to foretell whatsoever comes 
to pass. And certaiuly both His foreknowing and foretelling 
would be useless if His servants could not understand his prophets 
after they had transferred the vision to his people. I am one that 
now denies the position that the event cannot be known with cer- 
tainty, before it comes to pass. This false position would cheat 
us out of heaven itself. For certainly both heaven and hell are 
subjects of prophecy; and if I am bound to believe in futiure re- 
wards and punishments at the mouth of the prophets, am I not 
also boimd to believe in future events of time ? There is probably 
this point which has not been fully realized concerning prophecy. 
Tlie Scripture simply gives the outlines of events as a general 
thing, and that too, oftentimes in highly figurative and symbolical 
language ; whUe the event itself is brought about by the move- 
ments and ordinary circumstances of time. But how to reconcile 



an outline with a full figure, or tlic thing symbolical to the thing 
itself, has been the trouble. Nevertheless, this one thing is cer- 
tain, if the student of prophecy will keep the order of tune set 
forth in all chronological prophecies, there can i)ositively be no 
mistake in the event. So that, however highly wrought the lan- 
guage, there can be no mistake in the application of that same 
language to the events in time which that language was intended 
to set forth. Now, by a close observation of Scripture language 
and of the actual computations of time often made, (and always 
made when necessary to attain the definite object of God), there 
is an infill lible rule and guide which gives the Sacred Word a 
l^rccision that is fatal. Earth and heaven may pass away, but not 
one tittle of the law luitil all is fulfilled. Yet I cannot think that 
God intended to clothe the Scripture with abstruseness ; not even 
l)rophecy. The most common mind can attain to the understand- 
ing of the most abstruse points if they will use due diligence, faith 
and prayer. And without these instruments which God has or- 
dained many christians become infidelic as to the predictions 
which God's "Word contains. And how such persons will be jjrc- 
parcd for the coming and glory of the Lord, I cannot tell. I fear 
that Christ ^vill say to them as he did to the two disciples who 
were going to Emmans, "O fools and slow of heart to believe all 
that the projjhets have spoken.*' 

But to the subject of this little l)ook. God foresaw the suffer- 
ings, the hoi)cs and aspirations of our forefatUprs in settmg up 
this Government, embracing civil ahd religious liberty \\-ith con- 
stitutional guarantees; He also foresaw this cruel system of slavery 
and its wicked amidtion, and its final and total overthrow by the 
mighty power of the Union. And I verily believe He has men- 
tioned our lieloved President, Abraham Lincobi, in the beginning 
of the twelfth chapter of Daniel, — there representing him as a 
mighty agent styled Michael, the great prince, or as we more com- 
monly undei-stand it, the President ; '' who standcth for the child- 
ren of thy people." and therefore, he presides over the inliabitants 
of what Daniel calls the ''glorious holy mountain," wMcTi if the in- 
terpretation that follows be true, is these United States of America, 
Edw'd E. Townsend, ■.•.-'- 

Sept. 4, 18G5. Faulted Post, 

Steuben Co., N. Y. 



THE TIME OF THE END. 



Daniel, lie. 40—43, &c. 

40 V. And at the time of the End shall the king of the Soxith pueh at him ; and 
the king of the North (hall come against him like a vrhirlwind, with chariots and 
with horsemen, and with many ships ; and he shall enter into the countries and 
shall overflow and pass over. 

41 V. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be 
overthroT^Ti ; bnt there shall escape out of his hand even Edom and Moab, and 
the chief of thechildien of Amnion. 

43 V. He shall stretch forth hie hand a^so upon the countries, and the land of 
Egypt shall not escape. 

43 V. But he shall have power over the treasuries of gold and of silver, and 
over the precious things of Egypt ; and the Lybians and the Ethiopians shall be 
at his steps. 

44 v. But tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him . 
therefore, he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away 
many. 

45 V. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palaces between the seas in the 
glorious holy mountain ; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. 

12c. 1st V. And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which 
standeth for the children of thy people ; and there shail be a time of trouble such 
as never was since there was a' nation even to that same time ; and at that time 
thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. 

2d. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some 
to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 

3d. And they that be wise, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, 
and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars forever and forever. 

4th. But thou O Daniel, shut up the Words, and seal the book even to the 
time of the End ; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. 

At tlie time of the End sliall tlie King of the South push at him, 
and the King of the North shall come against him like a whii'l- 
wind -with chariots and with horsemen, and many ships, and he 
shall enter into the coimtries and shall overflow and pass over. 

This is a full and comj)lete history of the Slaveholder's Rebel- 
lion, and of the va§t armies and aiTnaments and navies wliich the 



King, or Government of the United States, whirled against the 
King of the South, or confederacy of the Southern or Shive States. 
This description given of God to Daniel over 2400 years ago> 
fully comprehended tUe origin of the war and the attacking 
power. Therefore he begins, even as we all know the war began, 
with an attack made by the King, or Government of the South, 
against the King, or Government of the United States, or North. 
It should be commonly known that the eleventh chapter of Daniel 
is a literal history of the world from the Persian Empire down to 
the end of time ; therefore, the man who understands common his- 
tory needs but little assistance in making the application. In the 
former part of this chapter the language bears so literal a construc- 
tion to the times and things they intended to rejiresent that Por- 
phery, an ancient infidel, insisted that Daniel Avrote them after the 
wars and occurrences had taken place. But we know that Daniel 
did write the language of which we are now commenting long be- 
fore the event, so that if we get the true apj^lication we must, in- 
deed, give God the praise. And since this jjart of the chapter be- 
gins with saying, " at the time of the End," why, certainly we 
must believe that it is the closing period of the whole histoiy . It 
would be very bad logic and theory also, to say that this language 
does not mean that the things to occur in the concluding verses, or 
part of the whole history, do not mean what it says ; that it is the 
period which shall embrace the final war and troubles of this 
world. But if we follow along to the next chapter we shall see 
that even a resurrection of the dead takes place, immediately afterr 
and as it were, in connection with these very events, and a variety 
of dates and sayings which lead to the same end and make the 
matter very plain. That is, that this saying, " the time of the 
End," means when this war between the South and the North 
shall be completely closed and settled, then the end of time is 
fully come. And since God himself has said that the period em- 
bracing this war is "the time of the End," therefore, I shall not 
labor very hard to prove the matter to any one. They must be- 
lieve or disbelieve, as they themselves choose in the matter. But 
it shall be my province to identify these two kings. And as they 
have already been brought to your view in their exact relations in 
the war through which we have just passed, I would ask, who but 
the Almighty and All-wise God could foresee at so remote a period 



this great struggle, and give it its- appropriate place in chronology, 
and foretell the movements of the United States Government and 
their termination in so comprehensive a space, with all the para- 
phernalia of war ? " Chariots," or long winding trains of cannon 
and baggage, and material of war ; " Horsemen," or vast bodies of 
cavalry with gaudy trappings and glittering swords, sweeping 
over Southern plains and rolling back the foe ; " Many Ships," 
or fleets that whitened the ocean with their sails, and drew aston- 
ishment from all the nations of the earth at their power and invin- 
cibility, totally blockading a coast of over two thousand miles in 
length, and finally rendering intercourse to any extent impractica- 
ble, and " overflow and pass over" with armies that, truly as de- 
scribed, swept away every vestige of opposition, whether human 
or in nature, and restored the Union to its more than original 
grandeur. 

But in this description, as all can see, the ijrojjhet has carried us 
through the rebelliou, and has given us the name of each contend- 
ing party ; yet with a strange but wise and foreseeing mind he 
has given us only a description of the power and success of the 
North, leaving a large margin for a full and complete description 
and characterizing of the King of the South. And, of course, we 
who are cognizant of the state of the case can see the necessity of 
this. For, among all the nations of the eai-th where should we 
see two diffierent antagonistic powers occupying one and the same 
country that could be properly denominated kings, or govern- 
ments of the North and South. But surely, nowhere could you 
find such a King, or government of the South, except in the South- 
em Confederacy ; and, therefore, it was necessaiy to give an eaten- 
sive view of his doings and deeds, of his moral and political char- 
acter, which the jirophet has done true to the letter. This power 
which arose at a moment's notice on his projjhetic vision, was pre- 
viously nowhere to be seen on the political horizon. But sud- 
denly it lifted up its head and assumed the character of a govern- 
ment, and "jiushed," or made a strike at, the remaining or trye 
government of the Union, which they of the South and all the 
world beside, styled the North. But this new power which so 
suddenly arose to view, was one of peculiar character. It resem- 
bled, strange to say, Egypt and her bondage which she exercised 
over Israel; also,''the resemblance related to the jjroducts and fab- 



rics of the same countn', and tbrougli tliis rGsemblance nud nature 
tliis King of the South exercised power or influence over the com- 
mercial and financial affairs of the world, &c. 

Now, let us begin with DanieFs identification, and see if he was 
at all mistaken in the nature or character, or deeds of this King, 
or Southern Confederacy, whose doom he foresaw as well as his 
rise and character. 
41st V, Consider how correctly Daniel begins the identification 
.by saying, "He shall enter also into (or possess) the glorious land, 
; and many countries (or states) shall be overthrown : but there shall 
escajje out of his hand even Edom and Moab, and the chief of the 
children of Ammon.'' We discover by following the connection 
down to the 41st verse that it is the King of the South, or the 
Southern Confederacy, that has entered into the glorious land ; for 
the description is a complete one, and the connection holds good 
throughout, therefore, it is the same king in the 41st verse that 
in the 44th verse hears tidings out of the East and North, and cer- 
tainly, if he is not king of the North or East, he is of the Southern 
Confederacy, or the attacking power that enters into or occui^ies 
the " glorious land." And the prox)het does not stop until he tells 
^ us the efiect this enteriDg, or occupancy, has upon the "glorious 
land.'' He says that "many countries shall be overthrown;" that 
is, many of tlie States composing that " glorious land shall be over- 
thrown." This was surely the case with the Rebellion. Many of 
the States wei-e overtluown, their constitutions changed from the 
Union to the Confederacy of the South. Still he adds, 41st v., but 
there shall escape out of his hand even "Edom and Moab, and the 
chief of ihe children of Ammon." As the original countries of 
Edom, Moab, and Ammon, are but deserts and wastes in this re- 
mote age of the world, this, therefore, can only be a figure between 
the modern and ancient state of things. Edom, and ]\Ioab, and 
Ammon, were truly of the kindred of the Israelites, but tlieir hearts 
were ever against the true interests of those whom' God called his 
children. Is it difficult then to suppose, if there is a part of this 
' .glorious land that may in the prophet's view be styled Egypt, or 
the land of bondage, that there may not also be some part like 
Edom, and Moal) and Ammon, half-hearted, if not mortal enemies 
of the King, or government of the United States. And indeed, 
what the all-wise C4od foresaw, we ourselves have seen that a part 



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of tlie States of tins Union, not even commonly iucludedin tlie so- 
called Slave States, were inclined towards the South. And in tliis 
sense tliey stood asEdom, and Moab, and tlie chief of the children 
of Annnon. Or, as the principal men or leaders of the Ammonites 
stood towards Israel, so many prominent men of the North stood 
towards this Government, and sought to throw the weight and 
power of some of the States into the hands of treason. But, not- 
withstanding the conspiracies and secret cabals, and the mobs and 
burnings they instituted, yet these States escaped out of the hands 
of the South by the superintending care of God and the power and 
sagacity of the government of the North. All true Union men and 
lovers of their country have felt the force of these things, and can 
Tcrily say, this is the truth. But what shall m'C say of God, who 
foresaw it many hundred years ago ? 

42d V. Now, since the jirophet has toretold us what political 
agitation should take place among the States of the " glorious 
land," and what an overthrow many of them should have, and 
what jjarticular part should escajje out of the hands of the South- 
ern Confederacy, or, as he calls him, King of tlie South, lie now 
(42 V.) ijroceeds to tell us what jjart of the glorious land should 
not escape out of his hand; therefore, he says, "He shall stretch 
forth liis hand upon the coimtries, (or States of the glorious land) 
and the land of Egji^t (or the land of l^ondage, or Slave States,) 
shall not escape. This I need not comment upon. It is too famil- 
iar to the world. "What amazing identifications we have now had 
at the mouth of the projDhet, and ho\v strange that they should 
come leaping down on the tide of. time through 2,400 years, 
and alight upon the head of this so-called Southern Confederacy 
in these United States of America. ., . . , 

43d V. But the prophet has not done; He must fasten the mat- 
ter with an irrevocable certainty, so that no mistake may be made 
as to this new and corrupt government. 

" But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of sil- 
ver, and over the i)recious things of Egypt, and the Lybians and 
Ethiojiians shall be at his stejis." Or, as the prophet would tell 
us: This King of the South should have great power or influence 
over the financial affairs of the country, (over the treasures, &c.,) 
and also over the "jirecious" things, or products and fabrics which 
resembled the precious things, or products and fa1)rics of Egypt ; 



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adding at the same time, " aud the Lybians and the Ethiopians 
shall Ije at liis steps." Inferrmg that the Lj'bians, or slaves from 
those countries who were at his steps were the motive power, or 
laboring power who saoidd produce the " precious tilings" or pro- 
duets of Egypt, or of the South, which resembles Egypt in its m- 
stitutions and products; and said precious things, or products, or 
fal)rics, should have a great influence upon trade, commerce and 
traffic, most probably; and therefore, this King of the South, or 
Southern Confetleracy, should have a great power over the " trea- 
sures of gold aud of silver," or the finances of the glorious land. 
And this should be a great consideration of this King of the 
South. "Wliich thing, as you all know, was one of the great 
troubles the go^'ernment of the United States had to contend with. 
It was this financial disturbance that gave the South great advan- 
tage In the origin of the war ; and it was caused largely by the 
influence the South had in the cotton trade. So the prophet com- 
pares the precious things of Egypt, or the fine linen fabrics of 
Egypt, which were a renown of that country, to the cotton of the 
South. Styling them the "i^recious things ot Egyjjt," looking 
upon them as the products of a cruel system of bondage, as de- 
rived from the labor and oppression of the Lybians and Ethiopi- 
ans who were at his steps; or, as he would tell us, they were the 
slaves of this Southern Confederacy, through whose labor and pro- 
ducts he should attain so great an influence over the finances, and 
commerce, and trade of the country and world. We all have 
heard the boasting expressions of the South, that Cotton was King, 
and the Seer has not forbidden that it should be a source of great 
financial power, Init he has stigmatized it as arising out of a sys- 
tem of oppression exercised upon the poor African, or Lybian and 
Ethiopian, which is the same. 

Let us ask the question direct. Does the prophet mean this 
language to apply to the Southern Confederacy or to some other 
power ? If he means this language to represent the South, then 
of course, there is a fitness in all that he says ; but if not, where 
is there any other power close down upon the verge of time who 
makes war upon a certain king or government of the North, who 
in his turn comes against said government of the South like a 
whirlwind with chariots, and horsemen, and many ships, and over- 
flows or sweeps over with his armies the countries or states of a 



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certain glorious land occupied, or entered into by a certain king 
of the South, who has great power or influence over the treasures 
of gold and silver, or the finances, and over the precious things, 
or products and fabrics of some country resembling Egypt, when 
she was in her power and glory, (and not " a base kingdom") 
made great by a system of oppression, or 1)y having slaves at her 
steps as did Pharaoh. 'Tis a vain research. History does not 
afford any record of a great and glorious land wherein two such . 
powers have contended, the southern pushing against the northern, 
and overthrowing many countries, or states of that land, some 
escaping, — which same power has attained great influence by a 
principle of slavery, and those slaves actually being Lybians and 
Ethiopians, or veritable inhabitants of Africa, and therefore, 
dragged from their own country by violence, — who also, as thq 
connection infers, were a producing power of some precious things 
or staple products, bearing an analogy to the stajile products aris- 
ing fi-om Egyptian bondage, over which products said king, or 
government of the South, shall have a pow^erfiil influence, as also 
he shall have over the finances of said glorious land : either of 
which powers, as may be truly inferred, being situated in said glo- 
rious land and holy mountain. But the former expressly, as the 
sequel shows for a purpose, shall "jjlant the tabernacles of his pal- 
ace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain, (or govern- 
ment guaranteeing constitutional rights and ci\al and religious 
liberty,) but he shall come to his end and none shall helj) him." 
The rise in value of gold and silver and the enormous exchange 
required between our own and foreign countries, the great con- 
vulsion in the financial world, everywhere seen and felt since the 
breaking out of the Rebellion, makes this ex^jression of Daniel a 
most extraordinary and astonishing prediction, and certainly pins 
the accoimt upon the back of the Southern Confederacy. Other- 
wise, we nmsr look for another South attacking another North, 
each having exactly like characteristics and situation, which is not 
supposable. 

44th V. But there are still other conditions which must move 
this King of the South, other characteristics which designate him. 
'■ But tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble 
him ; therefore, he shall go forth with great fui^ to destroy and 
utterly to make away many. Let the .voice of God and reason 



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speak To say ''The North and the South," has been but a com- 
mon ]j3^--\vord in the United States of America to designate the 
territory devoted to freedom and the territory devoted to slavery 
and even a line of compromise was drawn by the wisdom of states- 
men, that liberty might not infringe upon slavery and that slavery 
might not infringe upon liberty. Yet there seemed to be but a 
union of government, while there was a disunion of principle ; and, 
as might have been expected, increasing discord and disunion 
arose out of differences of sentiment so irreconcilable. All this 
the prophet saw down through the vista of time. He also saw 
that although an outbroken war had arisen between the two sec- 
tions of a glorious liand, — a land glorious as we shall hereafter see 
in her constitutional guarantees as well as in climate and fertil- 
ity, — yet each j^art should have great influence, and seek to exert 
his power in tlie territory and politics of the other so that he might 
thereby overthrow his adversarj'. But the prophet sees with cer- 
tainty that the South relies greatly upon the relations, principles 
and schemes he has maintained in the North, for he says, "tidings 
out of the North shall trouble him." Tliereforc, we see the actual 
state of things corresjwnds with the exjDcctations he entertains. 
Political parties and cabals instituted for the purpose of influenc- 
ing the government of the free States, aflbrded no little anxiety to 
the friends of fi-ee principles, and a deep sympathy was exhibited 
between northern and southern disunionists, which gave hope that 
the South might attain her object. But as all know, the final ex 
pression of the northern States in favor of sustaining the Govern- 
ment and putting down the Reliellion by a vigorous prosecution 
of the war, gave the South a clear view of their fate. At the same 
time, or previous, the confederates had plans of recognition laid 
in the "East," as the prophet expresses it, or as we term it in Eu- 
rope. These schemes were 1)ased upon their cotton influence 
lai-gely, hoping at the same time that despots, and all who were 
opposed to democratic institutions, would seize upon so fiivorable 
an opportunity to dismember the republic that gave such freedom 
to the popular will, htill, in all these purposes the confederates 
were doomed to disappointment. No recognition" came from the 
East, no tidings to relieve his burning anxiety from the North. 
His friends in the free States held their- opinions with many 
qualms of conscience, lest by some means or influence they might 



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overthrow the temple of Liberty which God and their fathers had 
erected, whose lofty spires glittered on the darkness of receding 
centuries of wrong. Thus the all-wise and foreseeing Maker long 
ago considered the principles and even the sentiments of this 
kiag, and also, the deep and damnable exi3ressions of his grief 
For he says of him, "therefore, he shall go forth with great finy 
to destroy and utterly to make away many." Who that ever 
turned his ear southward during this Rebellion could not hear the 
groans of tortm-ed, hanged, martyred Union men, whether of the 
northern or southern birth?- Then, when prisoners were ex- 
changed from time to time, starved, haggard, emaciated, the story 
of hatred, destruction, murder, was written on those pallid coim- 
tenances. And at last it was revealed that these suflferings were 
} but the effect of a premeditated system of starvation and death. 
And the state trials that have and are taking place do not 
hide the features of this revolting picture, which God's spirit 
drew in the perspective of twenty-four centuries. While the loss 
of the life of the Chief Magistrate of this nation at the hand of a 
bloody assassin, entertaining all the putrid sentiments of that rot- 
ten system of slavery, if not indeed a genuine tool of the Confed- 
eracy, together with the plot to take the lives of all the chief offi- 
cers of state at one simultaneous stroke, renders this prediction 
most wonderful — " therefore, he shall go forth with great fiu'y to 
destroy and utterlyto make away many." 

45th v. Again, we come to a new identification arising out of 
the peculiar geographical position of each of the parties, as also 
of the particular character of the government of the North, or of 
the power that brings the King of the South to his end : this be- 
ing styled the " Glorious holy ]\[ountain," in which the " the King 
of the South shall plant the tabernacles of his palace, between the 
seas, yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him." This 
mountam or government, called glorious and holy, evidently is not 
of the same character as its opponent which it overcomes ; never- 
theless, each of them are situated between the seas, and whatever 
the opposing power is, that is situated in the glorious holy moun- 
tain: it is the king of the government of the South. 

The question may here arise, whether " t)ie glorious land" men- 
tioned in the 41st verse is the same as "the glorious holy moun- 
tain" here spoken o£ It would seem that they are. For the king 



of the South certainly enters into the glorious land and possesses 
it at the time he is pushing against the king of the North ; and in 
this lust connection, he plants the tabernacles of his palace (or the 
seat of his government) in the glorious holy mountain, or govern- 
ment. And there is nothing inconsistent in supposing that a great 
and liberal government shall or may exist within a glorious or ex- 
tensive and fertile land, if only the connection will admit of such 
a construction. And this histoiT does not debar the conclusion. 
Nevertheless, there may arise questions as to what constitutes a 
" glorious holy mountain," or government, although there would 
be no hesitation as to what constitutes a " glorious land." And 
indeed, it is sad to contemplate that in the historj' of the world 
there have been few governments based upon such principles as 
would warrant the application of such a title to theii- polity or 
constitution. Should we search from the day that Moses issued 
the laws of God to the wandering tribes of Israel, we shall find 
few or none at all answering to so sacred a title. Our own beloved 
government will answer as well to this prefix as any other, except 
it might be to that of England; but to her this language and his- 
tory of Daniel can have no application, although she is in the or- 
der of time, but not of events. While these United States of 
America answer either to time, title, location, history, circumstan- 
ces, or any other particular mentioned in the prophecy, which, 
therefore, amounts to all that is requisite in any prophecy. 

But look a little further at the characteristics which are nece»- 
sary to the filling out of the expression, or title, " glorious holy 
mountain." Certainly it cannot be a freedom fi-om sin and evil, 
from war and suife or intestine revolt, and blood-shedding and 
murder, or oppression and covetuousness, for we have seen by pro- 
per deduction that all these have existed in the character of the 
attacking king; and the prophecy insists that he shall come to his 
end and none shall help him. So that when we are looking for a 
" glorious holy mountain," we need not necessarily look for a land 
or government free from sin and the accompanying consequences 
of such a fallen stare. But as we are told, so we must look for a 
government that, having arisen among or at the end of all the na- 
tions and governments of the earth, shall have great civil and re- 
ligious privileges guaranteed to at least a part, and according to 
the tenor of this prophecy, in the end to all of its inhabitants, (if 



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we can infer that the overthrow of a certain slaveholding power 
in its midst is proof to that effect,) showing verily, that there are 
two opposites in this "glorious land." While one calls for the 
title "glorious holy mountain," the other is a time-serving, oppres- 
fivc, ambitious power, seeking the influence arising out of the 
power lie may gain over the treasixres of gold and silver, and over 
the precious things of Egypt as produced by the Lybian and Ethi- 
opian at his steps. Or, as we must necessarily conclude, the con- 
test that arises between these parties grows out of their very char- 
acter. One having the characteristics which entitle him to be 
styled "glorious and holy," which undoubtedly arises out of his 
constitutional guarantees of civil and religious liberty, and is 
therefore .=<tylcd " glorious and holy," while the other relies upon a 
system of slavery and its producing power and influence, and has 
a ferocity and nature in accordance. The term "glorious and 
holy" is applicable to any government that regards the laws of 
God and humanity that invests its subjects with the right to serve 
their own consciences out of the divine Wtn-d. It certainly will 
put the historian who follows the line of sacred prophecy to the 
test, to find any other government since the time of Daniel that 
bears any greater resemblance to the form of this expression than 
the government and constitution, with the declaration, of these 
United States of America. And even should he find such a form 
and policy attached to some former nation, it must have the 
proper chronology and accompanying identifications of proph- 
ecy, or it will be of no avail. Therefore, when we consider 
that Daniel has expressly told us in a former 7th chapter, 17th 
verse, that there should be but four beasts, or great universal idol- 
itrous empires down to the end of time, and that the Papacy 
should arise in or among the ten horns, or kingdoms which should 
compose the East, or Roman Empire while in its decline, and that 
at, a certain stage of that Papacy a judgment or reformation should 
take place, which should consume and destroy it to the end, how, 
then, is it impossible that this glorious holy mountain, or govern- 
ment, is and should be a part and product of that reformation, 
while indeed the Roman Empire, in its declining state, is still and 
will be in existence down to the end of time? Also, when we 
consider that our Pilgrim fathers left Papal countries, and princi- 
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to worship God accordiug to the dictates of their ot\ti consciences 
"at a faith's pure slu-inc," then, indeed, ought we not to look for 
this ''glorious holy mountain" even as it is told us, "between the 
seas?" Or, as the mind readily contemplates, between those two 
great oceans, the Atlantic and Pacific, which bound this continent 
and comitryon the cast and west; which considerations, connected 
with the chronology of the Papacy which common as well as di- 
vine historj' tells tis, began its existence in the year six hundred 
and six a. c, and must therefore close its career at the end of 
twelve hundred and sixty days (or years as is the interpretation), 
which terminates, therefore, in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, 
and embracing this fact which is of such easy comprehension with 
the prophecy concerning this war, which miist take place at, or 
as we must understand, near the end and close of the world. Then 
indeed, is not the prophecy answered as to time, location, charac- 
teristics, and whatever particular may be nequisite, not even leav- 
ing out the essential beauty of this republican form of government, 
but styling its sacred institutions and equitable polity as "The 
glorious holy mountain." Still, there remains a point to discuss 
in this 45th verse conccming the career of this King of the South. 
''But he shall come to his end and none shall help him." And 
this particular must be fulfilled also, lest the whole prediction fail. 
We have all seen this confederacy of the Southern Slave States 
turning its eyes towards Europe, and towards its sympathizers in 
the North, expecting day after day that some scheme, or plot, or 
policy would succeed, but no scheme or device did succeed ; none 
of liis friends in the North could avail to help him. These Edom- 
itos and Moabitcs, and these chief or principal men of Ammon, 
though they cried never so hard : it is an unconstitutional war — it 
is an abolition war^it is a war of coercion — you are going to take 
away the property' of the South; still, the "irrepressible conflict" 
went on, and no European government dare, in the face of that 
cruel system of bondage which the South had incorporated into 
their constitution, even advocate openly so unholy a cause. There- 
fore, " he came to his end," beneath the floods and whirlwinds of 
republican hosts, who swept away his bulwarks and defences lik6 
the chaff of the summer's threshing floor, occupying his harbors 
and rivers with invincible navies. While the thunders of ten thou- 
sand cannon, shook the mountains and vales of tlxe South as with 



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an incessant earthquake, the bursting shell and flashing ndusket lit 
up he heavens -svith the liu-id light of death — chariots of war tore 
up the Adrgin soil — mighty squadrons of cavalry with iron hoof, 
trod down and eat up the green fields of his fraud — a thousand 
sanguinary battles of greater or less magnitude, cut off both the 
slaveholder and his princij)les, and the broad territory over which 
he had "stretched his hand" became but one vast aceldima. And 
to-day, where are the proud oppressors that dared to lift up their 
pimy arms against the God of hosts and his poor Ethiopians and 
Lybians, and the " holy mountain of liis delight?" Heaps upon 
heaps, and echo saj's heaps upon heaps. The Seer hath said, more 
than tvv^o thousand four hundred years ago, " but he shall come to 
his end and none shall help him." Was it a vain saying? 

12th ch., 1st V. But now we come to still otlier identifications, 
to new prophetic testimony, amazing in its wonders and relations. 
Verily, the Word of God is of all books the most astonishing; but 
can it be possible that the closing uji of the history of Time is the 
bcgirming of thg annals of Eternity? Have we indeed and m 
truth come to a portion of Scripture that, being actually connected 
with the history and literal events of a temi^oral government, is 
also, by the Spirit of projihecy, declared to be the opening scene 
of an Eternal kingdom and government, to be forever hereafter 
ruled by God and Christ? Christians, if this be true, open up the 
avenues of faith, for the day of your redemption draweth near. 
Holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts I let the whole earth be full of His 
praises. Then let us take the Word of God into consideration 1 
"And at that time shall Michael stand uj), the great prince which 
standeth for the children of thy people ! and there shall be a time 
of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that 
same time ! and at that time thy people sliall be delivered, every 
one that shall be found written in the book." 

2d v. " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth 
shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and ever- 
lasting contemi:)t." 

What shall be said concerning language of this character. We 
can only say that if it be of God, it must certainly be fulfiled! 
But who dare enter upon it and tell us its interpretation ? That 
it closes the gates of Time, evidently, and opens the portals of 
Eternity, none can deny. But dare we, dear fellow christians^ 



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draw near our God and ask Him with our faces in the dust, whftn, 
O Lord, shall these things be ? Let us take courage, dear fellow- 
traveler along the shores of Time. Our God is full of long suf- 
fering and mercy. Let us take to his Word, beloved. In it are 
to be found the keys of life and death. It is plain that we are not 
the only ones who have not clearly understood these things in 
times that are past, for Daniel himself, who wrote this book with 
all these prophetic numbers and declarations, says — "And I heard 
but I understood not! (but getting more bold, he says) — then, said 
I, O Lord, what shall be the end of these things ? And he said 
go thy way Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the 
time of the End." Here let us ask, how long these sayings shall 
be sealed and closed? God says, "till the time of the End." 
Then, certainly, there is a time when these important revelations 
shall be understood, and that period is at or near the end of the 
world. Yet evidently this expression does not debar those who 
have gone before from understanding this prophecy, for we verily 
know that the Apostle Paul understood and explained it in the 
great essential point to the Thesselonian church in his second 
book, and there have been many other christians since who have 
discovered the latitude which these sayings embraced. Neverthe- 
less the church itself has, as a body, been ignorant of its impor- 
tant truths, not so much because they are prohibited by this say- 
ing, but because of their ignorance and want of faith in God and 
the testimony of His prophets. In the book of Revelation, which 
embraces about eighteen hundred years of the same period with 
this prophecy, Christ says — " Blessed is he that readeth and they 
that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those sayings which 
are written therein, for the time is at hand ;" and Daniel himself 
says — "Many shall be purified and made white, and tried, but the 
Mcked shall do -wdckedly, and none of the wicked shall under- 
stand, but the wise (or righteous) shall understand." So then, 
it is both the duty and privilege of the sers'ants of God to en- 
ter in upon this ground. For yet a little while, he that shall 
come will come, and will not tarry. Therefore, let us return by 
the grace of God with increased courage to the opening of His 
holy Word — " And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great 
prince which standeth for the children of thy people." 
Again we are under the necessity of going back, as we are noti- 



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fied by the saci'ed writer, to the times of this great contest between 
the South and North, which has occupied a certain period of the 
history of the world at its latter end. And he explicitly says, " at 
that time shall Michael stand up." To whom must we ^pply this 
title. In a former chapter this designation was given to one of 
the chief princes of Persia, probably Cyrus ; and in a following 
verse he says, " But I will show thee that which is noted in the 
Scriptures of truth : there is none that holdeth with me in these 
things but Michael, your prince." Or, in other words, I am now 
going to open up to your sight all the kingdoms and governments 
of this world ; and there is not one of those great governments 
which I shall show you that holdeth with me in these things, or 
that unites with my principles and seeks to establish over its sub- 
jects a constitutional form of civil and religious liberty, but the 
government of the Glorious Holy Moimtain, which I shall show 
you "at the time of the End," over whose christian subjects, or as 
Daniel expresses it "the childi-en of thy people," shall Michael 
stand (or rule), the great prince, (or as we of this republic style 
him, the President). Of course, this manner of interpretation 
compels us to consider Michael as an earthly ruler, not a heavenly. 
We must receive the idea that God is repi'esenting some great 
earthly agent of His by that mighty angel who ever stands in Hia 
august presence, cheerfully doing his bidding. And he expressly 
says that Michael is the great prince which standeth at that time 
for the children of thy people. And to identify this ruler and this 
" glorious holy mountain," and these two contending kings, over 
whose government this same Michael stands, he says — " and there 
shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a na- 
tion even to that same time." Should it seem to the reader that 
we have succeeded in identifying this prophecy as applying to the 
North and South, then we have but a small stretch of faith to ap- 
ply this designation to om* beloved President Lincoln, who stood 
in heart and in fact as prince or governor of the Christian faiths 
and who as a great ruler was entitled to the name Michael, which 
means, " who is like God," from the fact that he was of a highly 
forgiving spirit, and also from the fact that he proclaimed liberty 
and freedom to four millions of a poor, oppressed people. And 
that there was a time of trouble during his presidency of over- 
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deny ; and tlie very photograph of our good President, taken after 
a long period of anxiety and care, -would itself almost amount to a 
fulfilment of this part of the projihecy. Then his cruel and mi- 
godly murder, with the sorrows of every nation and kindred, with 
their horror at such unrighteousness along ^\•ith all the other diifi- 
c ilties and complications of evil, make this time a complete fullil- 
luent of the prediction — " and there shall be a time of trouble 
such as never was since there was a nation even to that same 
time." 

Yet there may be some who say, but the President is dead and 
buried long since. 1 can only say that he was re-elected for a sec- 
ond term, which embraces all the time necessary to fulfil and com- 
plete this whole history of Daniel, and probably that with other 
considerations, which 1 cannot now discuss, would be a sufficient 
answer to this objection. But some may ask, does God ever stoop 
to name or mention any earthly prince or ruler ? Yes, we answer, 
it is quite common in Scrijiture. Even in these revelations of fu- 
ture events King Cyrus was mentioned by name long before he 
was horn ; Xerxes the Great is alluded to in the first part of this 
liistory ; Alexander and Ptolemy are alluded to and many others, 
so that we are at perfect lil)erty to search and find who this great 
prince Michael was, and who was the people for whom he stood. 

But now in its order we have come to a subject, fellow mortal, 
that turns back the faith of devout men and holy, that is the very 
end of the world and the resurrection of the tlead. Here the faith 
of man rolls back like the tibial currents of a broken cable. They 
mock like the Athenians did when Paul opened to them the most 
majestic of all Scripture truth, and many are not so liberal as the 
Greeks, for they said " we will hear thee again of this matter." 
But it is wiitten in dictatorial lines by the finger of God, and I am 
unable to pass it by unnoticed. Yet it seems that it were sacrilege 
to let the uniuspued pen mingle its words among those of living 
light. So we will close this little book with the true sayings of 
God — "And at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one 
that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that 
sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, 
luid some to shame and everlasting oonten\pt ; and they that be 
wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that 
turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. But 
thou Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book even to the 
time of the end; many sball run to and fro and knowledge shall 
be increased." 

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